Publications
PUBLICATIONS
Maud: A Novel Inspired by the Life of L.M. Montgomery, Penguin Teen, Penguin Random House of Canada, 2017, 386 pages.
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Forthcoming: “Under the Menorah: Hallmark’s Honorary Hanukkah Movies.” Under the Mistletoe: Essays on Holiday Romance, edited by Liz W. Faber, McFarland, TBD.
Forthcoming: “‘Perfect Delineations of Woman’: Exploring Grace Aguilar’s Jewish Girlhood and Transatlantic Sunday School Movement.” Between Worlds: Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Women Writers and Religious Identity, edited by LuElla D’Amico and Lindsay Katzir, Edinburgh UP, TBD.
“Literary Apprenticeship: L.M. Montgomery’s Non-Fiction Juvenilia (1889 – 1892),” Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, TBD.
“The Best-Looking Boy in P.E.I.”: Gilbert Blythe and the Perfect Man Archetype.” Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, TBD.
PUBLICATIONS
“’More like Americans’: The Queering of Historical Fiction Girls’ Series in Sydney Taylor’s All-of-a-Kind-Family Series.” Beyond Nancy Drew: U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction in the Mid-Twentieth Century, 1920-1970, edited by LuElla D’Amico and Emily Hamilton-Honey, Lexington Books, 2024.
Co-authored with Jones, Caroline, E. “Discovering Grace: Research Challenges in Finding the Lost Ingalls Sister.” South Dakota History Journal, Winter 2024.
“Book Review: Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence by Julie Pfeiffer.” Special Issue: Women’s Studies Journal, edited by Amanda Allen and Miranda Green-Barteet, 28 April 2023.
“Two Annes, Many Annes: A Writer’s Reflection on Reading Anne of Green Gables and the Diary of a Young Girl.” Special Issue: L.M. Montgomery and Reading, Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, (2021):
“Laura’s ‘Farmer Boy’: The Fictionalization of Almanzo Wilder in the Little House Series,” Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond, edited by Miranda A. Green-Barteet and Anne K. Phillips, University Press of Mississippi, 2019: 91-104.
“Book Review: House of Dreams: The Life of L.M. Montgomery.” Quill and Quire, (2018).
“How bestselling author Sarah McCoy imagined Marilla of Green Gable’s dreamscape.” Quill and Quire, (2018).
“Maud Author Melanie Fishbane on the Various TV and Movie Adaptations of Anne of Green Gables,” Quill and Quire, (2016).
“’My pen shall heal, not hurt’: Writing as Therapy in L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside and The Blythes Are Quoted,” in L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valleys: The Ontario Years, 1911-1942, edited by Rita Bode and Lesley Clement, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015, pp. 131-146.
“In Conversation: Sarah Henstra.” Humber Literary Review,(2015).
“Jonathan Crombie, Gilbert Blythe, and the Perfect Man Archetype.” Quill & Quire, (2015).
“A Seriously Funny Author Roundtable,” Canadian Children’s Book News, Vol.36. Issue (2013), pp. 14-17.
“We Recommend,” Canadian Children’s Book News, 2011 – 2015.
“Creating a Fairy Tale from History: An Analysis of the Influence of Merlin’s Prophecy of the Early Years of Joan of Arc in Children’s Biographies.” Proceedings of the Seventh Annual History in the Making Conference: History and Media, March 17, 2001, pp. 41-51.
“CFCR-Early Years,” Phonotheque.org.
Co-authored with Vipond, Mary. “CFCF before the Massey and Fowler Commissions of the 1950’s,” Phonotheque.org.
Co-authored with Vipond, Mary. “In the Name of the “Public Interest”: CFCF and some Controversies of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.” Phonotheque.org.
Co-authored with Vipond, Mary. “From Mountain to the City: A Brief History of CJAD,” Phonotheque.org.
Co-authored with Vipond, Mary. “Chronological Master List of Quebec’s English-Language Radio Stations,” Phonotheque.org, http://www.phonotheque.org/f/English-Radio-in-Quebec.html, 2000.
Co-authored with LePratt-Houseman, Delores. “Introduction,” History in the Making V: History in the Millennium from Antiquity to Modernity (1999), pp. v-vi.
CONFERENCES
FORTHCOMING: Going West”: Paternal Politics and the Mythology of the Constructed West in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House Series. CAAS 2023: WEST BY NORTHEAST, 22-24 September 2023.
Winner of the Thomas Waugh Emerging Scholar Award!: “The Book of Joanna: Re-Imagining Gender and Belief in Joanna Russ’s The Female Man.” In Panel: Re-Imaginings: Creating Queer Futures. Congress 2023 of the Humanities and Social Sciences: Reckoning and Re-Imaginings: Sexuality Studies Association, York University, Toronto, ON, 29-31 May 2023.-
“‘Nostalgic Reminiscences’: L.M. Montgomery’s Re-Visioning in Her Life Writing.” In Panel: Revising What Never Was: Nostalgic Romanticism in L.M. Montgomery’s Life Writing. 15th Biennial Conference L.M. Montgomery Institute: L.M. Montgomery and Re-vision, 22 -26 June 2022.
“‘Then I’m a Conservative, Too!’ Paternal Politics in Classic Girls’ Literature,” Daddy Issues Panel. 2021 ChLA Virtual Conference: The Arcade, June 10, 2021.
“Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy: Discovering the Jewish Girl in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.” Concepts of Girlhood Now and Then: “Girls’ Literature” and Beyond Virtual Conference, Linnæus University, Växjö, Sweden, October 6-8, 2020.
(With Caroline E. Jones): “Finding Grace: The Lost Ingalls Sister.” LIWLRA Conference 2019: “All Roads Lead to Laura.” Onalaska, WI, July 7 – 10, 2019.
“Laura’s “Farmer Boy”: The Fictionalization of Almanzo Wilder in the Little House Series,” Roundtable: Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Beyond Little House, 2018 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference, Denver, Colorado, November 7-11, 2018.
“A Box of Their Own: Reader Expectations of L.M. Montgomery and Her Characters.” L.M. Montgomery and Reading: 13th International Conference, Charlottetown, PEI, June 21-24, 2018.
“‘Between the river and the poplar bluffs,’”: L.M. Montgomery’s Nostalgic Reminiscences of Prince Albert.” Panel: L.M. Montgomery and the City. 2018 ACCUTE Conference, University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, May 29, 2018.
“What You Think You Know is Wrong! Questioning Certainties Questioning Romance: The Anti-Perfect Man in YA Literature.” Humber Liberal Arts Conference, Toronto, Ontario, September 2016.
“Crafting Fiction from Fact: The Perfect Man Archetype in Historical YA Fiction.” L.M. Montgomery and Gender: 12th International Conference, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, June 23-26, 2016.
“A Fine Partnership: The Development of the Perfect Man Archetype in Young Adult Literature.” A Better World: Humber Liberal Arts Conference, Toronto, Ontario, September 2015.
“The Man of the Place:” Almanzo Wilder and the Perfect Man Archetype in Young Adult Literature,” LIWLRA Conference 2015: “Through Laura’s Eyes:” Imagery, Illustrations, and Impressions from the Little House, Brookings, South Dakota, July 16-17, 2015.
“Beyond Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery’s Darker Side,” 46th Annual NeMLA Convention, Toronto, Ontario, April 30, 2015.
“Full and Frank:” L.M. Montgomery’s Reflections on her Teen Romances and Writing,” The Canadian Home Front: L.M. Montgomery’s Reflections on War — Idea of Canada as a Nation, North York Central Library, Toronto, Ontario, January 27, 2015.
“Maud Without an “E”: L.M. Montgomery’s Legacy and Canadian Culture,” University of Toronto Continuing Education Series. Oakville and Markham, Ontario, November and December 2014.
“War with the Mean Girls: Clemmie Macneill vs. Maud Montgomery and the (Mock) Trial of the Century,” L.M. Montgomery and War: 11th International Conference, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, June 25-29, 2014.
“‘The Best Looking Boy in P.E.I.’: The Immortalization of Gilbert Blythe in Our Cultural Memory,” L.M. Montgomery and Cultural Memory: 10th International Conference, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, June 20-24, 2012.
“In Shadow and Light: How L.M. Montgomery Explores Grieving in Rilla of Ingleside,” L.M. Montgomery in Leaskdale Conference, Leaskdale, Ontario, October 13-15, 2011.
“Anne + Gilbert Forever: The Cultivation of The Perfect Man in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne Series, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga,” L. M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature: 9th International Conference, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, June 23-27, 2010.
Ongoing: “Finding My Fictional Maud.” Author Talks at libraries, high schools, and book festivals across Canada. Including, Word on the Street in Saskatoon, the Telling Tales Festival, and the Kingston Writersfest Readers and Writers Festival, 2018- Present.
